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	Looking for a great job in IT? The cloud is hiring IT is moving to the cloud -- and so are the jobs. Here's how to cash in on the hot trend in tech hiring. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Mellanox Technologies Improve Cloud Infrastructure ROI with Mellanox InfiniBand Mellanox's comprehensive InfiniBand interconnect solutions enable the world's fastest and most efficient infrastructure for Cloud deployments. Utilizing Mellanox's InfiniBand interconnect solutions, Cloud IaaS provider, ProfitBricks, offers 4X higher transfer rates with 10X lower latency times than comparable Cloud providers based on 10GbE. Download our case study with Cloud IaaS provider, ProfitBricks, and learn how, you too, can provide revolutionary Cloud performance using Mellanox InfiniBand products. In this Issue Netflix to ditch data center, embrace cloud Apprenda wants you to build your apps for the cloud ... for free Is your disaster recovery plan ready for cloud? SDN and security: Impact of network security in the SDN-enabled data center Oracle to announce cloud infrastructure service at OpenWorld, Ellison says One of my favorite security tools goes enterprise IT doesn't matter: What every IT pro needs to know to survive in the cloud era - Part 2 Gartner: Cloud to grow 20% this year to $109B market Avoid moving from a dumb pipe to a dumb cloud WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Standardize on Process-oriented Best Practices If you're looking to adopt IT best practices to realize efficiencies and make better use of your limited resources while keeping pace with the growing demands of the business, ITIL can help! And adopting those best practices put forth by ITIL doesn't have to be a complicated or expensive project! Read Now! Netflix to ditch data center, embrace cloud Netflix no longer wants to run a data center to support its in-house IT services. So it's shifting internal applications to Amazon's cloud and turning to software-as-a-service providers for other business systems. Read More Apprenda wants you to build your apps for the cloud ... for free Continuing on a theme of cloud vendors offering free or low-cost versions of their offerings, private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company Apprenda this week launched a freemium "express" version of its application development service. Read More Is your disaster recovery plan ready for cloud? Having successfully piloted cloud usage with SaaS applications such as CRM and ERP, many businesses are now looking to replace traditional on-site backup and disaster recovery (DR) solutions with cloud-based DR. Gartner predicts that more than 30% of midsize companies will have adopted DR in the cloud or recovery-as-a-service by 2014. That begs the question: Is your business ready to make the leap? Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More SDN and security: Impact of network security in the SDN-enabled data center Security is one of the leading challenges for IT professionals. And securing the data center (and related applications) in the era of public, hybrid and private clouds presents a complex set of problems for IT. The rise of SDN technologies will change the dynamics around securing the data center network, offering opportunities for improved automation and as well as new security concerns. Read More Oracle to announce cloud infrastructure service at OpenWorld, Ellison says Oracle will announce a new IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offering at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison said on Thursday. Read More One of my favorite security tools goes enterprise If you work in the IT space (and I assume most of you reading this do) you know that you are the unpaid home IT consultant for most of your friends and family in non-IT careers. If something goes wrong or is not working they call you for help. Looking for a new computer or wireless router? Should I go Mac after all these years of Windows? What about the cloud? Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Capitalize on the Cloud with a Sound Network Strategy New research underscores cloud computing's challenging effects on corporate networks, but solutions are available. Learn More! IT doesn't matter: What every IT pro needs to know to survive in the cloud era - Part 2 How do you define the scope of IT in the cloud era, and how does it fit into your organizational structure? Read More Gartner: Cloud to grow 20% this year to $109B market The cloud computing market will grow almost 20% this year to become a $109 billion industry, research firm Gartner predicts, with business process as a service (BPaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) dominating the market, but infrastructure as a service (IaaS) quickly gaining momentum. Read More Avoid moving from a dumb pipe to a dumb cloud Back in 1998 when Google Search started to replace AltaVista, could you imagine the company would be laying fiber in Kansas City in 2012 to offer a 100 times faster Internet service? Or that the New York Stock Exchange would evolve from a trading floor in its 1903 building on Broad Street, to offering virtual and physical colocated computing infrastructure services in its New Jersey data center? Read More
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